Serious Concerns Raised Over Kenyan Election Voter Turnout

After the Kenyan elections came to a close on October 26 amid violence in some parts of the country, all eyes were on the electoral body, IEBC to deliver timely results and avoid the mistakes they had in the August 8 election. So far, they have 'not disappointed'. In fact, they have created a new form of statistics that statisticians and voters across the country are still trying to understand. Kudos to IEBC, we are heading somewhere!.

35,564 polling stations opened in today's poll. Turn-out 48% (est.). 27,124 form 34As have been posted on portal https://t.co/0f0tlSfOVC

— IEBC (@IEBCKenya) October 26, 2017

The 48% was a BEST estimate turnout from the team. Latest actual figures from 267 constituencies show 6,553,858 Kenyans turned out to vote. https://t.co/F01ewf79kT

— Wafula Chebukati (@WChebukati) October 26, 2017

Am I the only one waiting for Chebukati to convince me how the total turn-out jumped from 6.5M to 7.3?

— Cyprian, Is Nyakundi (@C_NyaKundiH) October 28, 2017

Wafula Chebukati now tells us that of 19.6m reg’d voters, only 6.5m voted ... It means 30% turned up to vote & 70% boycotted ... #NowWeKnow

— Donald B Kipkorir (@DonaldBKipkorir) October 27, 2017

"KIEMS Kits on close had 3.5M total cast votes, this wasn't anticipated, they projected 6M. Chebukati given 48% the rest is why there's delay🐥"

— Kenya West© (@KinyanBoy) October 28, 2017

Turnout in Kenya's election re-run was 33% -- down from 80% in the last vote https://t.co/5joVYmb2GM pic.twitter.com/FD0DrW3zhT

— CNN International (@cnni) October 27, 2017

The registered voters in MANDERA WEST is 26,816 bt UHURU managed to gt 109,938 votes@NJENGAMIKE @Asamoh_ @ahmednasirlaw#ArrestAliceWahome pic.twitter.com/zJOG3gbBNY

— Eric Ndemange (@_ericndemange) October 28, 2017

There was an on-air mix-up of results from Bungoma County and Mandera West constituency. The error is highly regretted #Ballot2017 pic.twitter.com/PivUYrQk80

— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) October 28, 2017

The @IEBCKenya today agreed with Media Owners Association to broadcast on live television results as declared from all constituencies

— IEBC (@IEBCKenya) September 29, 2017

1) So, I am told Commissioner Guliye has spoken about KIEMS. I asked for the video. It came. #KenyaPolls pic.twitter.com/KlLnXOjKMY

— Alphonce Shiundu (@Shiundu) October 28, 2017